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- Museum number
- 1949,1011.90
- Title
- Object: Mr. Medhurst, in conversation with Choo-Tih-Lang, attended by a Malay Boy.
- Description
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Double portrait of Walter Henry Medhurst and Choo-Tih-Lang, both full length, seated in cane chairs, the former with a paper in his lap and the latter writing at a table, Medhurst dressed in a dark frockcoat and pantaloons and Choo-Tih-Lang in traditional Chinese dress of a gown and round cap, a Malay boy in a striped shirt, mantle and trousers holding a book at Medhurst's side, books and a vase on the matting floor, a window behind flanked by Chinese calligraphy and a tree visible beyond
Coloured stipple and engraving
- Production date
- 1840s (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 210 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 125 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For the Chinese inscription, see "大上海：东西汇流" （中共上海市委宣传部出品指导；上海广播电视台制作），in Pujiang Zongheng Monthy 浦江纵横2019年11月 (no. 214) p.58 -- zwzx.eastday.com/zx/pjzh/201911.pdf (accessed 01 Feb 2021)
Hillier 2020 describes this as the frontispiece to Medhurst's book "China: Its State and Prospects", and based on the watercolour by George Baxter (Hillier's fig.2) which is now in Archives and Special Collections, SOAS, ref: CWM/LMS/Home/China Pictures/12 (CWM/LMS/01/09/05/08/12)
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Evangelical Magazine
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1949,1011.90
